Anatom3DChest wall
Paries thoracis · Hrudní stěna
Skeleton
Looks like
Twelve pairs of ribs with muscles between them, joined to the breastbone in front and the spine behind.
What it does
Protects the heart and lungs and moves them with every breath.
Keeping it well
Deep breaths after an injury or surgery, painkillers that let you cough. Broken ribs heal in about six weeks.
Its parts
- Ribs
- Sternum
- Thoracic spine (T1–T12)
- Intercostal muscles
- Diaphragm
- Pectoralis major
- Pectoralis minor
- Serratus anterior
- Intercostal nerves & vessels
- Thoracic wall
- Right lateral chest wall
- Left lateral chest wall
- Superficial chest wall
- Anterior chest wall
- First posterior intercostal artery
- Lateral thoracic vein
- Posterior intercostal arteries
- Second posterior intercostal artery
- Set of anterior intercostal veins
- Subclavian vein
- Subcostal vein
- Clavipectoral fascia
- Pectoral fascia
Related conditions
- Acromegaly
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Bone metastases and spinal cord compression
- Botulism
- Breathing pattern disorder
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- Costochondritis
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Fibromyalgia
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Gout
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Gynaecomastia
- Haemophilia & bleeding disorders
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Kawasaki disease
- Kyphosis and Scheuermann's disease
- Lyme disease
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Marfan syndrome & connective tissue disorders
- Metabolic syndrome
- Muscular dystrophy
- Myasthenia gravis
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Peripheral artery disease
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Pleural effusion
- Pleurisy
- Pneumothorax
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Pre-eclampsia
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Rabies
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Restless legs syndrome
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Rheumatic fever & rheumatic heart disease
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sarcoma
- Sarcopenia
- Scoliosis
- Sepsis
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Temporomandibular joint disorder
- Tetanus
- Trichinellosis
- Varicose veins
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency